· Private foundation
Lillys Gift Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of LILLYS GIFT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $851k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $495k
- $250k+2 grants · $690k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 10TH DISTRICT JUNIOR LIVESTOCK COMMITTEE | $345,000 |
| TULELAKE-BUTTE VALLEY FAIR FRIENDS | $345,000 |
| WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| PURR-ANGELS | $95,000 |
| WICKENBERG ELKS CLUB | $50,000 |
| MT SHASTA RACE ASSOCIATION MT SHASTA OXI TEAM | $50,000 |
| SISKIYOU WORKS BUTTE VALLEY CTE PROGRAM VIM SHANKS | $50,000 |
| TIMOTHYS HOUSE ORPHANAGE REV REX DAWSON | $50,000 |
| CALIFORNIA CATTLEWOMEN HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WEED HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME | $50,000 |
| MARCOLA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CSULB 49ER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| TRAUMA INTERVENTION PROGRAM OF LANE COUNTY | $30,000 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $30,000 |
| MADRONE HOSPICE INC | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $371k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 23% of Lillys Gift Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 61% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
67 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $941k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- 1D10th District Junior Livestock Committee Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +49% · 26% of their budget
- WMWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +16%
- SHSTABLE HANDS7× · 2017–2024 · $184k · revenue +35% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- FFFAMILIES FORWARDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +49%
- ORORE-CAL RCDone grant, 2020 · $100k
- RCREDEMPTION CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.
C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
Dog rescue and adoption
Rescue of abused or abandoned animals
Animal rescue
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward and the most unlike its peers is Red Bucket Equine Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 39% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 123 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TULELAKE-BUTTE VALLEY FAIR FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds 10th District Junior Livestock Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds STABLE HANDS ↗
- Who funds MADRONE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds PURR-ANGELS ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASANTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds CATALIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BUTTE VALLEY AMBULANCE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH HOSPICE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Klamath Medical Service Bureau Foundatio Attn Timothy a Bailey · Graham Family Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Network for Good
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lillys Gift Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Womenspace — 62% of income from government
- Klamath Advocacy Center — 60% of income from government
- Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc — 59% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Seeding Justice — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.